Call for Board Members of VIVO Media Arts Centre

VIVO Media Arts Centre is seeking new members to join its Board of Directors for the 2026–2028 term. We are actively seeking candidates with strengths in financial oversight, fundraising, and marketing. General Board member applications are also welcome.

We are committed to a Board that reflects the communities we serve. We strongly encourage applications from individuals who identify as First Nations, Métis, Inuit, Black, People of Colour, and/or 2SLGBTQIA+.

This volunteer role is well-suited to people who care about independent media arts, community access, and the long-term sustainability of artist-run organizations. Board members contribute approximately 2–4 hours per month through online meetings and committee work, with a direct role in guiding VIVO’s financial health, public profile, and fundraising capacity.

What is VIVO?

Founded in 1973 as Satellite Video Exchange Society, VIVO Media Arts Centre is one of Canada’s longest-running artist-run centres dedicated to experimental media arts. Located on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. VIVO is both a steward of critical media art history and an active site for emergent experimental practices.

Since its founding, VIVO has supported artists and communities through workshops, production resources, distribution, residencies, performances, exhibitions, and curatorial and archival research, while caring for a significant repository of media art history. VIVO fosters critical and formal approaches to media arts that reflect evolving technologies and diverse communities, playing a unique role in shaping artistic practice in the region. VIVO’s vision is for everyone to have the means and agency to creatively question and participate in their mediated worlds, and its mission is to nurture past, present, and future media arts communities through equitable public access to resources for preservation, production, and dissemination. Guided by core values of experimentation, artist-run leadership, inclusivity, media preservation, and responsiveness, VIVO supports non-commercial and community-driven practices, prioritizes fair compensation and self-organization, welcomes difference, ensures access to living archives, and remains attentive to shifting community needs and systemic barriers to participation.

Role of a Board Member

Board members collectively:

• Advance VIVO’s mission and long-term sustainability
• Hold fiduciary responsibility for a non-profit charitable society
• Participate in Board committees focused on fundraising, finance, facility and personnel
• Support strategic planning, accountability, and organizational resilience

Who We Are Looking For

VIVO is especially seeking individuals with skills or lived experience in:

• Financial planning, budgeting, and oversight
• Fundraising and donor development
• Marketing, communications, and audience growth
• Non-profit or community-based organizations
• Strategic thinking and advocacy

Formal credentials are not required. Lived experience, community knowledge, and non-traditional career paths are valued.

Not Sure If You Qualify?

Apply anyway. Your experience may be more relevant than you think.

VIVO values the leadership of people from marginalized and underrepresented communities, including Indigenous, Black, racialized, disabled, 2SLGBTQI+, non-binary, gender non-conforming, migrant, working-class, and formerly incarcerated people. We recognize that identities intersect and shape lived experience.

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Deadline: February 2, 2026 at 11:59pm.